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12-14-2012, 12:35 AM
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Re: DIAMOND ENGINEERING
I remember a few decades ago when I bought a flat red painted, LO23 1968 Hemi Dart. It came with an NOS 1970 426 hemi block and a bunch of stuff from Diamond Engineering including a magnesium crossram still in the box from them. It appeared to have been cut open, modified and welded up again.
I bought the Dart just to keep the NOS engine. I sold the Dart a couple weeks later for twice what I paid.... ...it later turned out to be Dick Landy's 4-speed Hemi Dart. DOH!          
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12-14-2012, 01:05 AM
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Re: DIAMOND ENGINEERING
Nope. The car sold in 1988, along with the Hemi Dart specific parts. I kept the block, heads, and rotating assembly, put it together and eventually sold the running engine in 1993.
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12-14-2012, 02:57 AM
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Re: DIAMOND ENGINEERING
YUP. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
If I had simply sanded off the flat red paint I would have found the original Landy colors in the door jambs....like the later owner did.
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12-14-2012, 02:27 PM
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Re: DIAMOND ENGINEERING
----I would like to have been a fly on the wall watching that Magnesium manifold get welded back together! Mark did remember the guys at Diamond working on the magnesium cross-rams......Bill S
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12-14-2012, 05:12 PM
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Re: DIAMOND ENGINEERING
----Steve,,,I just found out that a guy named Chuck Kurzawa did the welding job on that magnesium intake. He must have been some welder!!! Also, my friend Mark remembered a 68 Hemi Dart that looked very much like the one you had that was around the Detroit area prior to you owning it, but he wasnt absolutely sure.......Bill S
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12-14-2012, 06:18 PM
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Re: DIAMOND ENGINEERING
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: olredalert</div><div class="ubbcode-body">----Steve,,,I just found out that a guy named Chuck Kurzawa did the welding job on that magnesium intake. He must have been some welder!!! Also, my friend Mark remembered a 68 Hemi Dart that looked very much like the one you had that was around the Detroit area prior to you owning it, but he wasnt absolutely sure.......Bill S</div></div>
Chuck Kurzawa was pretty famous in the Detroit area as a Top Fuel owner and driver. Ron.... P.S. Bill, did he have anything to do with making parachutes?
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